| Property |
Value |
| @id | the:PerceptualHierarchyInversion |
| type | Art, Composition, Concept, formal analysis, Resource, Visual Analysis, Visual Arts |
| broader | Composition, Formal Analysis, Interpretation, visual art term, Visual Hierarchy |
| definition | A compositional strategy in which secondary visual elements (such as shadows or reflections) become more visually assertive than the primary objects that generate them, reversing normal perceptual expectations. |
| inScheme | Watercolor Criticism Scheme |
| label | Perceptual hierarchy inversion |
| scope note | Applies when the artist deliberately makes derivative visual phenomena (shadows, reflections) dominate over their source objects. |
| skos:altLabel | Reversed perceptual hierarchy |
| skos:exactMatch | Visual_hierarchy |